Nokia has officially teamed up with (get this list) Intel, Motorola, Modeo and Texas Instruments, to form a new organisation devoted to seeing DVB-H established as the worldwide mobile digital TV standard. Pretty cool, especially as the announcement was made in the USA, home of competing proprietary digital TV systems.
The Smartphones Show programme 3 is now online. The 20 minute videocast features a preview of the Nokia 9300i and has a real world run through of TomTom MOBILE 5 in action on a Series 60 smartphone, plus other features.
Microsoft are catching up is the summary of Russell Beattie as he looks at the strides the HTC devices and Windows Mobile has made in the smartphone space. His final thoguht echos a lot of enterprise users: "...the N80 and its generation will be one of Nokia’s last chances to get it right when it comes to smart phones, and their integration with PCs. If it doesn’t sync, and doesn’t work seamlessly with my network, then the next rev of Microsoft’s phones - including the Treos - are going to start to make a dent in Nokia’s smart phone lead."
If you're the sort of person who installs software from strange Internet sites and random people bluetoothing applications, then you need to be aware of Symantec's updated list of Symbian OS trojans. If you never trust unknown programs though, you can rest a little bit easier.
World Tracker, a new service from a UK company lets you track the whereabouts of any new phone or smartphone, PocketLint (via Engadget). Once authorised, this might be useful in tracking a stolen smartphone or in locating your partner or children?
The publishers of PDA Essentials magazine, the most Symbian-friendly of the newstand titles, have gone bankrupt and have started having their titles and assets snapped up. The future of PDAE is apparently in the hands of something called "Brush Colour". Anyone able to fill in more details of this story?
Over on Symbian.com, David Wood's latest 'Insight' editorial is on the way the huge success of Symbian OS smartphones will inevitably spark a renaissance in home-produced applications. Back to the way things were in Psion's hey-day?
i-Symbian have published a fairly long (but interesting) four part interview with long time AAS-friend Arjen Broeze. Of special interest to anyone looking at OPL for developing programs for the Nokia Communicator,
Fresh from the AAS review of the N70, Steve's included a video version in the second edition of his video/podcast "The Smartphones Show," released today. Also featured in the show is a look at the iTech laser 'virtual' keyboard. It's free to download, over at www.smartphones-show.com.
Tom Hume has been putting Yahoo! Go through its paces on his blog, and Hume's conclusion is that "Overall, Yahoo! Go seems rather niche. It's a nice stake in the ground for Yahoo! to demonstrate that they're taking mobile seriously, but practically speaking how many high-end Series 60-owning folks make use of so many Yahoo! services, want to use them when they're mobile, and want to pay for the privilege?"
If you're a Google user on the move, then their newly launched personalised Mobile Home Page could prove usful. There's more details at Search Engine Watch and MobHappy, and the page itself is either autodetected or point your browser at www.google.com/ig/mobile.
PC Pro magazine (in the UK), whose March 2006 edition is now on sale, has a group test of 'PDA phones', featuring the Nokia 9300 and 9500. As you'd expect, given that PC Pro has always been very pro-Microsoft, neither win an award, although they liked the wide screens and PowerPoint editing facility.
